"Let's go into the ruins now! Remember to be careful and don't touch anything, Ulric will lead the team alongside Blaine with two more volunteers the mages stayed with me in the center of the formation surrounded by the warriors."
After Aunt Venus chose those who would stay behind to guard the camp and the entrance to the ruin, the group now has only twenty warriors, not counting min and Aunt Venus' personal guards.
As we approached the ruin, I finally saw what it looked like. A two-story white stone rectangular building, it should have been a very nice construction when it was made, but now it's covered in fungus and vegetation and much of the building's white stone started to darken and was slightly damaged, but it couldn't. not see any damage that would harm the structural integrity of the building.
But what most differentiated the ruin was not its architecture or its state, but the mana and elemental energy that swirled around the ruin and flowed through the temple walls, unlike the dungeon that I can't even see an energy running through the walls this ruin seems I live for me, even the buildings I've seen that have dozens of magical matrices engraved on their structures can't compare to the spectacle of colors dancing like a river in the structure of the ruin.
The mana of the structure and the densest mana I've ever seen in my life, nor the concentrated mana of a high-level mage like Aunt Venus can be compared to the mana that flows like blue threads through the walls of the ruin to elemental energy and a mixture of various elements, but the elements earth, life and water are predominant.
"I don't even see a matrix protecting the door, but a field around the ruin preventing the mana and elemental energy from moving away from the ruin. This field cannot keep us from entering, but the ruin environment is saturated with mana and elemental energy most of which is trapped within the ruin itself rather than flowing through the air."
"The arrays and possible golems inside the ruin have no lack of fuel, so it seems that we will have to face several problems when entering the Aunt Venus ruin, are we still going to enter?"
"Yes, although I would prefer the ruin to be less active, we may still be able to explore the ruin and take as much of the resources as possible, and then sell its location to the royal family, but if it has a very protected location or with a very complicated matrix and best avoided, Ulric."
"OK."
I began to lead the group with the shield warrior Blaine at my side protecting me and serving as the group's shield should we be attacked by a matrix directly. When passing through the first barrier the only difference I felt was that the air felt strangely pure, if I didn't have the ability to see the energy in the air I would fear being poisoned by the air, but the elemental energy in the air is not entering my body and only the pure mana of the air that is giving this feeling of freshness.
But after going through the portal, it didn't take long to realize that this ruin was a temple of nature when it was built, the walls are filled with art that symbolizes intelligent races and nature, avia lakes, forest, volcanoes, a mountain range and an ocean the intelligent species drawn as various dark silhouettes were living in harmony with nature and not focusing their will on it.
These murals are very beautiful, but seeing them in a decaying and deserted temple gives me the impression that I'm in a horror movie. The remarkable silence in an ancient and dangerous ruin that is being invaded by a group of people in search of treasures, it seems that all the ingredients and a horror and adventure B movie are gathered here today.
It only took a few minutes to find the first barrier in this matrix and an alarm that was at the end of the first corridor, and most of the runes in this matrix were far from the door and it made my life difficult, but I only needed a few minutes to disable this simple matrix that was just a temple bell, I don't want to announce our entrance to the temple.
When we entered the first room of the temple, it was a very interesting church, very white and green just a little blue on the walls and the art was the same as the hallway, but what made me happy is that the four golems are the walls of the room are completely asleep even though they are full of mana.
It seems that our presence was not registered by the matrixes of the temple, but I see the same type of barrier on the two doors that this room has, it seems that I will spend a lot of time undoing this matrix time is a good practice. During the next hour we went through several rooms and realized that this temple is built like a labyrinth, we went up and we felt like we were lost if it wasn't for the map, we were drawing which becomes more and more complicated to put on paper.
A three-dimensional labyrinth was not something we expected, according to Aunt Venus who did huge research on various types of ruins, temples like this are designed by the temple leader who was usually a wizard and as it is difficult to find a magician who doesn't have his quirks in his personality and adding that nature magicians were called extremist freaks is natural that many temples have different characteristics and many of them are extremely annoying like this.
The only good news we've had is that security is weak in this ruin or the part we've explored so far. Apart from the simple barriers that are in each door of the ruin I only found two more elaborate matrixes in the center of two rooms, taking the time I spent to disarm them the exploration is at a good speed, but the profits are very short for everyone.
We went through dozens of empty rooms with useless objects, taking out some old tomes that were preserved by the material used, we only recovered some resources that were thrown in these rooms, they were low-level elemental gems and some metal pieces, nothing rare was found. It seems that we are still far from the heart of the temple the aria we passed must have been the quarters of the lesser people.
Only after another two hours and having passed through several dozen common rooms did the arrays become more complicated and more frequent. The matrices in mine from the rooms have become more common and dangerous and several of them if activated would have attacked the group with several bursts of energy that would likely be intensities of the power of orange core mages.
My exploits so far have rewarded me with the deep respect of all members of the expedition I have done a job well above average, and with that I have gained a very large amount of credit, if the exploration continues for a long time, I will be able to negotiate a great deal of rare material from the Kelence family and perhaps even something interesting and precious from this ruin.
But you inferred when we got into rooms that had an interesting number of precious materials, we were attacked by some golems. We were attacked by several groups that organized into units of five golems of the same type, there were golems that could unleash attacks from various elements imitating magicians' magic that by the way were protected by warrior golems that were made with metals and rocks of level four.
Their defense was superior to their offensive power, because otherwise we would be facing dozens of levels four golems which would be deadly for our group that only has three people with yellow cores. The mage who created this temple looks like he tried to create an army of golems that simulated weird orcs, the face behind the helmet and under the mages' hoods was similar to the face of an orc, it was ugly and with fangs protruding from its mouth.
But the golems weren't the size that the orcs usually are they were the same height as the humans we are, maybe their creator thinks a face like that would help put fear in common people. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen an example of a person of authority using fear to control the weaker people, there is more than one realm that fantasizes its soldiers to scare the common people or the neighboring realms.
This wizard must have been a very irritating and troublesome person. Apart from the golems that are appearing our way even though we didn't activate any of the matrices, I'm sure of that because I was very careful to find out what is activating the golems.
But after dismissing the hypothesis that they were being activated by a matrix I found out by studying the head of one of the golems. These golems are completely different from the ones I faced in the dungeons these golems were really mechanical golems powered by mana and elemental energy, after analyzing their bodies I confirmed what i had read in books before, the dungeon golems are really monsters that have spired the creation of mechanical golems like these.
We spent a whole day in this ruin just to make a minimum profit, Aunt Venus decided to retreat out of the ruin and prepare several days of supplies so that we could explore this ruin for a long time, with our current supplies we will only be able to stay in this ruin for three days maybe four. Aunt Venus didn't expect this ruin to be a giant labyrinth like this.